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The Intellectual Property Strategist

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Disney-OpenAI’s Sora Deal Signals for IP, Licensing and Responsible AI Image

Disney-OpenAI’s Sora Deal Signals for IP, Licensing and Responsible AI

Reber “Mitch” Boult & Joshua Rojas

For rights holders, platforms and brands, the Disney-Open AI licensing deal illustrates an emerging blueprint for commercializing iconic IP in AI-native formats while attempting to manage legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.

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Protecting AI As a Trade Secret Can Create a ‘Goldilocks’ Problem Image

Protecting AI As a Trade Secret Can Create a ‘Goldilocks’ Problem

David Baake

Based on a review of recent case law, this article identifies three considerations that practitioners should pay attention to in cases involving AI trade secrets.

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New York Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act Examined for Effect On Commercial Speech Image

New York Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act Examined for Effect On Commercial Speech

Stephen M. Kramarsky

The opinion in the case that upheld New York's algorithmic pricing disclosure law offers a thorough analysis of the issues surrounding regulation of this kind of technology, and it is worth a closer look as the battle is likely to continue in New York and across the country.

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Federal Circuit Reasserts Limits On USPTO Authority In 'KAHWA' Ruling Image

Federal Circuit Reasserts Limits On USPTO Authority In 'KAHWA' Ruling

Andriy Lytvyn

The decision reasserts important limits on the USPTO’s authority, particularly its reliance on unverified foreign-language translations, hypothetical assumptions about what businesses “might” offer in the future, and tenuous connections between a word and a service category.

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IP News

Jeffrey Ginsberg & Shelli Gimelstein

Federal Circuit: “Complete Identity of Inventive Entity” Required to Remove Prior Art as Not By “Another” Under Pre-AIA LawFederal Circuit: No Trade Secret Misappropriation By Goodyear nor Correction of Inventorship Warranted Because of Coda’s Failure to Show Specificity, Secrecy, or Evidence of Use

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